Example sentences of "[vb base] she [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She say she going to be entertainer . |
| 2 | Her brain raced over and over what her mother would say , how awful she would feel , what she ought to do , until she felt that the movement in her head would spin her off the bed and send her whirling round the room . |
| 3 | ( Even her leaping into bed with him again . |
| 4 | These involve her talking to a Jem , a childhood admirer , and on these occasions Boehemer captures the awkwardness of two people who have not seen each other for years meeting up . |
| 5 | Her employers , the Northern regional health authority , want to prevent her returning there , to end her secondment as a neo-natologist in Newcastle-upon-Tyne , and for the foreseeable future prevent her working in child abuse . |
| 6 | He 's on a holiday project her talking to himself . |
| 7 | ‘ I remember her staying with us at Carinish Court , ’ James was saying . |
| 8 | erm she was hefty though and her sister Ann used to be enormous years ago this is , and erm she went on a , a diet , I do n't know what , how , how she lost the weight but she did and I , I had n't seen her for some years and I remember her coming to the factory this day , and she came in and she , she used to do er her flower shop , she used to do flower arrangements and the girls at work would order them you know ? |
| 9 | I says c how could I ever forget it , I said it must have been near halloween , one halloween , for I remember her coming to the party and that 's how her and Richard met . |
| 10 | A friend of mine had their grandmother living with them — I remember her sitting in her special chair , her feet on a footstool , with people getting her this and that . |
| 11 | He say , I stand beside her , hear her talking on the telephone ; her boss call her , say come to work . |
| 12 | When Novella — whose name so aptly means new — discloses herself , we find her looking into a mirror where she is refracted and multiplied , clustered and polymorphous , beheld and beholding in infinite variety . |
| 13 | But even when the shuttle she was on turned back to answer the mayday , she made sure her disguise — patterns of others ' skin and hair , eyes and voice and figure — yes , she had to make sure her disguise held , and deny her longing to be cleansed in the fire . |
| 14 | No longer that terrible clattering of clogs in the street to wake her every morning and start her thinking about all those poor people and those ragged little children hurrying to the mill . |
| 15 | There was no school on a Saturday and she would probably demand that he take her skating on the frozen lakes in the park — and in all honesty he did n't want to disappoint her . |
| 16 | That possibility will be of little consolation to you now , when you hear and see her dictating to her friends . |
| 17 | I see her crouching at the entrance of a hut ( olpal ) looking in at , perhaps talking to , the shy bride within , who does not want to leave her father 's village ( engang ) . |
| 18 | And when you see her talking to people you wonder what they can be talking about . |
| 19 | If we see her walking up the road we can tell her , and if we do n't , we 'll give them a ring later on . |
| 20 | It 's much more Greek , and I see her smiling to herself when she wrote Walter 's words — ‘ It was like a Greek tragedy . |